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Expert perspectives, research-backed information, and practical resources to help you understand OCD and anxiety disorders. From the team at Renewed Freedom Center.

Beyond ‘Just Worrying’: Understanding the Real Impact of Anxiety Disorders
December 1, 2025

Beyond ‘Just Worrying’: Understanding the Real Impact of Anxiety Disorders

When everyday worry becomes a clinical condition that changes everything "Everyone gets anxious sometimes." If you're struggling with persistent worry, racing thoughts, or overwhelming fear, you've probably heard this phrase…
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Social Media’s Double-Edged Impact on OCD: When Connection Becomes Compulsion
November 24, 2025

Social Media’s Double-Edged Impact on OCD: When Connection Becomes Compulsion

How the platforms designed to bring us together might be making your OCD and anxiety worse Emma scrolls through Instagram for the third time in an hour, her thumb moving…
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Your Career May Be Suffering From Anxiety and You Don’t Even Know It
November 14, 2025

Your Career May Be Suffering From Anxiety and You Don’t Even Know It

How untreated anxiety and OCD are silently sabotaging your professional success, and what you can do about it You're sitting in another meeting, your heart racing as your boss asks…
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7 Tips to Help Your Child Build Resiliency and Self-Confidence Throughout the School Year
September 6, 2022

7 Tips to Help Your Child Build Resiliency and Self-Confidence Throughout the School Year

Many parents do their best to ensure their children are prepared to start off the new school year. From new clothes and shoes, to required school supplies and books, we…
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Parent Burnout is A Reality – Here are 7 Tips to Prevent It
September 3, 2022

Parent Burnout is A Reality – Here are 7 Tips to Prevent It

Being a parent is no easy feat. Gone are the days of Netflix-n-Chill replaced by Disney on repeat and perpetual tasks that never end. From the daily monotonous routine of…
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How Do We Challenge Anxiety and Increase Social Wellbeing?
July 22, 2022

How Do We Challenge Anxiety and Increase Social Wellbeing?

July is Social Wellness month. Prepandemic we had many opportunities to socialize face-face with others, engage in activities, and travel. As the pandemic became more intrusive, many of us began…
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Back to School: The Parent Accommodation Edition
July 20, 2022

Back to School: The Parent Accommodation Edition

It is understandable that the pandemic caught everyone by surprise and didn't make anything easier. Parents were not only stressed but some had to watch their child’s anxiety peak as…
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What is PTSD?
June 9, 2022

What is PTSD?

Post-traumatic stress disorder occurs when someone experiences a life-threatening event. This could be a serious accident, tragic event (i.e. war, natural disaster), or a devastating personal experience such as physical/sexual…
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Burnout in Male Workers
October 27, 2021

Burnout in Male Workers

We often hear about this word on the TV show, radio, or in a conversation. BURNOUT. What is burnout? However, what is burnout? It is a psychological and physical form…
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Men and Work
October 19, 2021

Men and Work

Men and Work Historically, men and women have worked side by side. Dating back thousands of years, humans sustained themselves via hunting and gathering. Typically, the men hunted while the…
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